News-Antique.com - Oct 29,2008 - Christie's sale of 19th Century European Art and Orientalist Art realized $10,846,750/£6,456,399/€8,279,962. The top lot of the sale was a Alberto Pasini's Mercato in Oriente, which realized $1,142,500.

Comment - Deborah Coy, Head of the 19th Century European Art and Orientalist Art Department: “Private bidding prevailed in today’s sale for highly selective, rediscovered Orientalist and 19th Century European Art. Bidding was truly international throughout the sale and 6 new world auction records were realized for Edme Alexis Alfred Dehodencq, Frederick Weekes, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Wilhelm Kuhnert, and Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s Le marché des fleurs, which was broken just a half hour later by his own The Lower Market, Paris.”